Renowned singer Gloire Stella has mysteriously disappeared. When a television producer tries to track her down, Gloire goes on the run. From the cliffs of Brittany to the back alleys of Bombay, Big Blondes is a riotous, nonstop adventure for anyone who has ever wondered whether blondes really do have more fun. A gentle tending to perversity links Echenoz to that other master of the perverse detail, Vladimir Nabokov... Go out and join the millions who will enjoy Big Blondes. -- Los Angeles Times Book Review Echenoz picks out the absurd nuances of pop culture and twists them into a contemporary detective book... A hilarious read. -- Publishers Weekly [Echenoz] delights in savaging mass media clichs like television docudramas or action-adventure movies...dispatching them with gleeful silliness. -- New York Times Book Review Jean Echenoz won France's prestigious Prix Goncourt for I'm Gone (The New Press). He is the author of six other novels available in English and the winner of numerous literary prizes, among them the Prix Médicis and the European Literature Jeopardy Prize. Mark Polizzotti has translated over forty books from the French, including works by Gustave Flaubert, Marguerite Duras, André Breton, Raymond Roussel, Patrick Modiano, and Jean Echenoz, and has written six of his own. He directs the publications program at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where he lives. Used Book in Good Condition